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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Remember when I told you guys that this blog constantly has an attack of the copycats? Well, I found a person that started a blog in February, and has used over 15 of my posts to keep his own blog full of content.I did a search on one of my article titles and got his/her site. This guy (or girl) stole the posts, complete with the pics. The dummy even stole the pics with my URL clearly printed across them, and my personal photos that I put in posts, too. What an idiot!However, he/she claims him/herself as the author of all the works, and there is not one link connecting back to me. I have already begun actions as advised to his/her ISP provider, etc.Here is his/her personal info:His/Her Name - Hjalte SofienfrydHis/Her Address - Hedeparken 121 1 ThPostCode 2750Ballerup, DKHis/Her Phone # - +45.21862286His/Her Email - hjalte81@gmail.

I will not post which site he's on, because I refuse to dignify his site with a link. However, all you fitness/health bloggers should do a search on your article titles and see if there are duplicates on the net. If you do, you can email me and I'll let you know if it's the same site. He/she has a few other articles besides mine on there that are probably stolen as well. He obviously can't write for himself.Why do people who have no writing skills, no brain of their own and no clue try to have blogs? What an ASS!I'm so sick of this!His website is 95% MY CONTENT!!!

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Diva I almost had a hissy fit when I found the same thing. I usually check my feed stats in the mornings and I will click the links back to sites I'm not familiar with.

This site was a sports site with a tennis section that was comprised of ALL of my latest posts and some of the posts on the front page of the site! No reference to Black Tennis Pro's or anything, and no name or contact data on the site.

Sheila, I know how you felt. Makes you want to whip out a can of Whup Ass! Except...there's no ass to whup! lolI'm going to try my best to make this guy's life hell, though.I've been researching what else I can do, both legally and just for revenge. Bunch of stuff left I can still do, if he persists.

I should have told you that I never had any success. I tried everything under the sun. Fortunately for me the site was just gone one day. I hope that you have better success than me.

Since I could tell that they were utilizing my feed then editing out any of my site info, I went through my feed subscribers, figured out who it was and blocked the subscription. They just resubscribed and I had to keep blocking it.

It's a very unfortunate circumstance because it's very difficult to track down somebody who is purposely hiding in cyberspace.

Earlier this week I was reading a new article posted on Dr. Oz's site, realage.com. Later that same day, while dropping on entrecard bloggers, I ran across the exact same article, copied almost word for word. I left a message stating what I had found. I couldn't believe that someone would steal a post from someone famous and who probably has millions of readers.

There are thousands of ezine articles that blogger could have used for free without plagiarizing your whole blog. Not only was he too lazy to write, he was too lazy to search for the free content that's out there!

I've had this happen to me also. One blogger copied and pasted my entire article (with pictures) on muscle soreness. She took it down when I contacted her.

Another blogger took one of my Christian relationship articles and pasted it into his porn site. Wordpress shut him down when I contacted them.

I can't believe someone is that stupid (well, okay, I can). I'm glad you're going after this slug! If he has any advertisers/affiliate links on his/her site, you should notify them as well. You can be sure they take a very dim view of this and will yank his account. Hurt this turd where it hurts...the wallet. Let us know what happens.

I've had this happen before. It does hurt and you do feel violated after you've spent time writing and rewriting and proofing your work to make sure everything is fine just to have someone copy it with the click of a mouse. Stinks!

OMG, it also happened on me once and it's really a frustrating situation indeed! You must send the warning letter to him/her and advice that guy to drop off the contents. If the person still didn't listen to your advice, then you can take a more strict action on him/her!